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Rice University President David Leebron announced this week plans to step down from his role at the school after 18 years. He will continue to oversee the.
Prolific Rice University president announces end to storied tenure
Prolific Rice University president announces end to storied tenure David Leebron s tenure is one of the longest in Rice history.
Photo courtesy of Rice University For some 17 years, Rice University president
David Leebron has overseen exponential growth of the school’s facilities, research initiatives, and student body. Now, his tenure is coming to an end. Leebron and the university announced on May 26 that he is leaving his position at the end of the next academic year. His official departure from the presidency will be effective on June 30, 2022, per a press release.
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Leebron to step down from Rice presidency in June 2022
Rice University President David Leebron has announced he plans to leave his position at the end of the next academic year after nearly two decades at the helm of one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning.
David Leebron
Leebron, who has overseen dramatic expansions of Rice’s facilities, student body and research initiatives since his arrival in 2004, will remain at the university through the 2021-2022 academic year. His departure from the presidency will become effective on June 30, 2022.
“Ping and I are so grateful for the opportunity we have had at Rice,” Leebron said. “This is a truly remarkable and dedicated community and it has been a privilege to be part of it.”
“Humans are strange…We are the aliens,” observes Columbia University astrophysicist, Caleb Scharf, noting that humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. “We also have a truly outsize impact on the planetary environment without much in the way of natural attrition to trim our influence (at least not yet).
“Like a Sudden Invasion by Extraterrestrials”
“But the strangest thing of all,” notes Scharf for Scientific American, “is how we generate, exploit, and propagate information that is not encoded in our heritable genetic material, yet travels with us through time and space. Not only is much of that information represented in purely symbolic forms alphabets, languages, binary codes it is also represented in each brick, alloy, machine, and structure we build from the materials around us. Even the symbolic stuff is housed in some material form or the other, whether as ink on pages or electrical charges in nanoscale pieces of silicon.